Francisco Rabal

Francisco Rabal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francisco Rabal (March 8, 1926 – August 29, 2001), perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain. In 1936, after the Spanish Civil War broke out. Rabal and his family left Murcia and moved to Madrid. Young Francisco had to work as a street salesboy and in a chocolate factory. When he was 13 years old, he left school to work as an electrician at Estudios Chamartín. Rabal got some sporadic jobs as an extra. Dámaso Alonso and other people advised him to try his luck with a career in theater. During the following years, he got some roles in theater companies such as Lope de Vega or María Guerrero. It was there that he met actress Asunción Balaguer; they married and remained together for the rest of Rabal's life. Their daughter, Teresa Rabal, is also an actor. In 1947, Rabal got some regular jobs in theater. He used his full name, Francisco Rabal, as stage name. However, the people who knew him always called him Paco Rabal. (Paco is the familiar form for Francisco.) "Paco Rabal" became his unofficial stage name. During the 1940s, Rabal began acting in movies as an extra, but it was not until 1950 that he was first cast in speaking roles, and played romantic leads and rogues. He starred in three films directed by Luis Buñuel - Nazarín (1959), Viridiana (1961) and Belle de jour (1967). William Friedkin thought of Rabal for the French villain of his 1971 movie The French Connection. However, he could not remember the name of "that Spanish actor". Mistakenly, his staff hired another Spanish actor, Fernando Rey. Friedkin discovered that Rabal did not speak English or French, so he decided to keep Rey. Rabal has previously worked with Rey in Viridiana. Rabal did, however, work with Friedkin in the much less successful but Academy Award-nominated cult classic Sorcerer (1977), a remake of The Wages of Fear (1953). Throughout his career, Rabal worked in France, Italy and Mexico with directors such as Gillo Pontecorvo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Rivette and Alberto Lattuada. It is widely considered that Rabal's best performances came after Francisco Franco's death on 1975. In the 1980s, Rabal starred in Los santos inocentes, winning the Award as Best Actor in Cannes Film Festival, in El Disputado Voto del Señor Cayo and also in the TV series Juncal. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1999 he played the character of Francisco Goya in Carlos Saura Goya en Burdeos, winning a Goya Award as Best Actor. Francisco Rabal is the only Spanish actor to have received a honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Murcia. Rabal's final movie was Dagon, a film which was dedicated to him right before the credits. The dedication read "Dedicated to Francisco Rabal, a wonderful actor and even better human being." Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux, when he was coming back from receiving an Award at Montreal Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Rabal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The Revolution on Two Horses
2002
Zio Henrique
Zero/infinito
2002
(voice)
Dagon
2001
Ezequiel
Just Run!
2001
Don Vicente
Nights of Constantinople
2001
Lázaro de Tormes
2001
El Ciego
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Self
Peixe-Lua
2000
Tio Nini
Divertimento
2000
Goya in Bordeaux
1999
Goya
Talk of Angels
1998
Don Jorge
Divine
1998
Papá Basilio
Water Easy Reach
1998
Day and Night
1997
Cristobal
La novia de medianoche
1997
Wenceslao Corredoira
Little Bird
1997
El Abuelo
Little Miracles
1997
Don Francisco
Airbag
1997
Villambrosa
Oedipus Mayor
1996
Tiresias
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995
San Pedro
The Lame Pigeon
1995
Tío Ricardo
Felicidades, Tovarich
1995
Abuelo
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
Luis Buñuel (voice)
La mujer cualquiera
1994
La Lola se va a los puertos
1993
Don Diego
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1992
Antonio
La taberna fantástica
1991
Rogelio
The Other
1991
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990
Máximo Espejo
Manuel, le fils emprunté
1990
Juan Alvarez
Baroque
1989
El Hispano
The White Dove
1989
Domingo
Buñuel
1989
Self
Torquemada
1989
Torquemada
Scent of a Crime
1988
Coronel Olvera
A Time of Destiny
1988
Jorge Larraneta
Il mistero del panino assassino
1987
Arno dei conti Vincini
Divine Words
1987
Pedro Gailo
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
1986
Señor Cayo
Tiempo de silencio
1986
Muecas
History
1986
Remo
El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986
Guaglione
Bohemian Nights
1985
Max Estrella
Scapegoat
1985
Comisario Cárdenas
The Witching Hour
1985
Cesar
Our Father
1985
Abel
Marbella
1985
Juan
The Lost Paradise
1985
El político anciano
Futuro Imperfecto
1985
La vieja música
1985
Domingo Ferreiro
Coarse Salt
1984
Gabino
Epilogue
1984
Rocabruno
The Holy Innocents
1984
Azarías
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
1984
Coronel Márquez
Los zancos
1984
Manuel
Crooks
1983
Ginés Jiménez Valera
Treasure of the Four Crowns
1983
Sócrates
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983
Coronel Márquez
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1983
Coronel Márquez
The Beehive
1982
Ricardo Sorbedo
Reborn
1981
Giacomo
Under Siege
1980
William Lombard
The Rebel
1980
Tony
Speed Driver
1980
Esposito
Vultures Over the City
1980
Bender
El gran secreto
1980
Domingo
Nightmare City
1980
Major Warren Holmes
Hunted City
1979
Don Alfonso
El buscón
1979
Mata
Ciao Cialtroni!
1979
Fra' Giovanni
Hotel Fear
1978
Marta's lover
Corleone
1978
Don Giusto Provenzano
Stay as You Are
1978
Lorenzo
Sorcerer
1977
Nilo
I Am the Law
1977
Albanese the Outlaw
Io sono mia
1977
Padre di Orio
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
M.llo Tronk
The Long Vacations of '36
1976
Teacher
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976
Blanca's Weddings
1975
Antonio
Fight to the Death
1975
Comisario Emilio Mendoza
La peccatrice
1975
Turco
C.I.A. Secret Story
1975
Mehdi Ben Barka
The Dead Man
1975
Azevedo Bandeira
Eye of the Cat
1975
Eminenza
Death Will Have Your Eyes
1974
The Blackmailer
The Tempter
1974
Bishop Marquez
Tormento
1974
Agustín Caballero
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974
Tío
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
1974
Self (uncredited)
The Guerrilla
1973
El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Counselor at Crime
1973
Vincent Garofalo
La otra imagen
1973
La colonna infame
1973
Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
1973
Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
It Can Be Done Amigo
1972
Sheriff
N.P. - The Secret
1972
Ingegnere N.P.
Planet Venus
1972
Party chauffer
Le soldat Laforêt
1972
Paco
Nada menos que todo un hombre
1972
Alejandro Gómez
Exorcism's Daughter
1971
Fuso
El apartamento de la tentación
1971
Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
The Big Black Sow
1971
Il Medico
Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971
Goya
Ann and Eve
1970
Francesco
Cutting Heads
1970
Díaz II
Diario Spagnolo
1970
Él mismo
Eagles Over London
1969
Martin
Blood in the Bullring
1969
Juan Carmona
Simon Bolivar
1969
José Antonio Del Llano
The Challenges
1969
Carlos
Spain Again
1969
Reportero
Un adulterio decente
1969
Conserje (uncredited)
Les Anges exterminés
1968
Bloody Che Contra
1968
Che Guevara
After the Deluge
1968
Pedro
Belle de Jour
1967
Hyppolite
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
1967
Rodrigo Cervantes
The Witches
1967
Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Nun
1967
Dom Morel
Long Days of Vengeance
1967
Sheriff Douglas
Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967
Julio
Hoy como ayer
1966
Ramón
Camino del Rocío
1966
José Antonio
Legacy of the Incas
1965
Gambusino
The Blue Panther
1965
Paco Castillo
Currito de la Cruz
1965
Manuel Carmona
The Devil Also Cries
1965
Tomás
España insólita
1965
(voice)
María Rosa
1965
Intimidad de los parques
1965
Héctor
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
José María 'El Tempranillo'
The Big Hit
1964
Michel Arland
The Other Woman
1964
Zaylor
The Reunion
1963
Alberto
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
Carlos
Summer Night
1963
Bernardo
Mathias Sandorf
1963
Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Viridiana
1962
Jorge
L'Eclisse
1962
Riccardo
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
1962
Pascual
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962
Fra Diavolo
Pigeon Shoot
1961
Elia
Azahares rojos
1961
Arturo Gómez Mancera
The Hand in the Trap
1961
Cristóbal Archaval
At Five in the Afternoon
1961
Juan Reyes
Hijo de hombre
1961
El hombre de la isla
1960
Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Trío de damas
1960
Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
Nazarin
1959
Father Nazario
Sonatas
1959
Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Two Men in Town
1959
Superintendente
Diez fusiles esperan
1959
José Iribarren
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958
Mario
Cuenca
1958
Narrator (voice)
La noche y el alba
1958
Pedro
Revenge
1958
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Wide Blue Road
1957
Salvatore
Marisa
1957
Antonio
The Mighty Crusaders
1957
Tancredi d'Altavilla
Whom God Forgives
1957
Juan Cuenca
Saranno uomini
1957
Giacomo
La gran mentira
1956
César Neira
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
Cristóbal Paterna
Death of a Cyclist
1955
(uncredited)
Revelation
1955
Sergio Gresky
Radio Stories
1955
Gabriel
El canto del gallo
1955
Padre Miller
Murió hace quince años
1954
Diego
All Is Possible in Granada
1954
Fernando Ortega
Judas' Kiss
1954
Quinto Licinio
I Was a Parish Priest
1953
Martín
Hay un camino a la derecha
1953
Miguel
Sor Intrépida
1952
Tomás
Luna de sangre
1952
Pedro Alvareda
María Morena
1952
El Sevillano
Doubt
1951
Rafael Figueroa
María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951
Perseguidos
1951
La honradez de la cerradura
1950
Ernesto
Alhucemas
1948
Tostado (uncredited)
Don Quixote
1947
(uncredited)
El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946
La rueda de la vida
1942
Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)